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About HIV/AIDS

HIV Medicine 2006: textbook

This medical textbook provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the treatment of HIV Infection. It describes the 4 main transmission routes for HIV infection including:

- unprotected sexual intercourse with an infected partner
- injection or transfusion of contaminated blood or blood products
- sharing unsterilised injection equipment that has been previously used by someone who is infected
- maternofetal transmission

It also outlines the "natural history" or course of progression of the virus, its epidemiology and a classification system which allows for public health surveillance.

The book can be downloaded in chapters or as a complete publication.

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